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There, according to the circumstances, he would launch another offensive, or
collect news, or sit reminiscing about Chekhov, Kuprin, Shaly- apin and General
Skobelev. Running into me, he would stare at me with round, indignant eyes and
...
There, according to the circumstances, he would launch another offensive, or
collect news, or sit reminiscing about Chekhov, Kuprin, Shaly- apin and General
Skobelev. Running into me, he would stare at me with round, indignant eyes and
...
Page 41
his own dream of travelling round the world — clowning all the way, slapping
backs, offering snuff to cab-drivers in Paris and Negro kings on the banks of the
Zambesi — and returning to Moscow with such traveller's tales as would really
make ...
his own dream of travelling round the world — clowning all the way, slapping
backs, offering snuff to cab-drivers in Paris and Negro kings on the banks of the
Zambesi — and returning to Moscow with such traveller's tales as would really
make ...
Page 70
... the wildfire of nasturtiums with fat round leaves and red, hooded flowers; even
the sparrows drinking from perpetual puddles around the water hydrants, and the
fly-specked oleograph, 'The Ritual Kiss', the bored canary in its cage, the potted ...
... the wildfire of nasturtiums with fat round leaves and red, hooded flowers; even
the sparrows drinking from perpetual puddles around the water hydrants, and the
fly-specked oleograph, 'The Ritual Kiss', the bored canary in its cage, the potted ...
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Contents
Whirlpool pagej 2 Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 56 |
4 The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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